Par GARCIA JOSE MAURICIO NUNES. Garcia, born in 1767 in Rio de Janeiro, and priest and music director at the cathedral there, is still hardly known. Among his spiritual works are four settings of the Mass for the Dead. The present „Missa dos Defunktos“ was commissioned by the Portuguese King Dom Joao VI in the memory of Queen Maria I, who died in 1816. The composition, in the key of D minor, shows…

Par . Taking guitarists through the early steps of learning notation and fretboard knowledge, this book is the ideal introduction to learning the guitar for beginners. This volume works equally well for Electric and Acoustic guitarists. Through a series of engaging and contemporary playalong pieces and exercises, each element is progressively introduced, with handy tips and ?Did you know'? boxes t…

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. With final chorus 'An die Freude' (Ode to Joy) Between 1996 and 2000 Bärenreiter published scholarly-critical editions of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies edited by the first class musicologist Jonathan Del Mar. The editorial process was a huge undertaking because of the complex source situation regarding Beethoven's Symphonies culminating in the Choral Symphony which came dow…

Solo Arrangements. Par SCHERLER BEAT. The new series is the easy preliminary stage for the successful ' Best of Pop and Rock for Classical Guitar” series. All eight songs are arranged for solo guitar and written in both musical notation and in tablature form. A lead sheet is also provided for each song with suggestions for strumming and picking. Demons (Imagine Dragons) · Heathens (Twenty One P…

Par SOLANO JUAN. A special two-volume set of songs by the great Juan Solano Pedrero, arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar. Working as a member of the hugely successful Ochaita, Valerio and Solano trio, the Maestro Solano developed his skills as a composer, and the group became responsible for some of the most celebrated songs of Spain. His works have been performed by many star voices including Co…

Vocal Score. Par ROSSINI GIOACHINO. In the days just before the Christmas of 1816, Rossini was still looking for the subject and the libretto for an opera that he was contractually obliged to stage at the Teatro Valle in Rome in just over a month's time. Jacopo Ferretti proposed a libretto he had himself written based on the famous fairytale by Perrault, Cinderella. Rossini composed the opera in l…

Par TIERSEN YANN. 'I think there is a similarity between the infinite big and the infinite smallness of everything,' says Yann Tiersen. 'It's the same experiment looking through a microscope as it is a telescope.' Named after a chapel in a small village on the island of Ushant, Kerber marks a new chapter in Tiersen's career. A chapter still true to Tiersen's nuanced and subtle approach but one tha…

Born in Erfurt, the composer Edward Mollenhauer (1827-1914) achieved success in America as a soloist and teacher. His best-known pieces for young violinists are 'The Infant Paganini? and 'The Boy Paganini?.Both appear here in their original version for violin and piano and, for the first time, in a transcription for cello and piano by Christoph Sassmannshaus.The Mollenhauer fantasia 'The Infant Pa…